Janet Hinostroza Acceptance Speech
Arianna Huffington introduces Janet Hinostroza (Ecuador) with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2013 International Press Freedom Award. Janet Hinostroza. Teleamazonas, Ecuador. Acceptance Speech CPJ International Press Freedom Award 2013 . November 26, 2013. Waldorf-Astoria, 301 Park Avenue, New York City As prepared for delivery Thanks to CPJ for this award. I always wanted to be…
Journalist faced prison for posting media relations number
Carlos Miller is not one to back down. As the founder and publisher of Photography is Not a Crime, a leading blog about free speech and press rights in the U.S., Miller has made it his mission to publicize examples of government overreach and the suppression of journalists’ and other newsgatherers’ rights. And although he…
Interactive Timeline: 12 months of impunity at a glance
In December 2012, the Committee to Protect Journalists and 27 partner organizations launched Speak Justice: Voices against Impunity as part of an international effort to seek justice for the hundreds of journalists who have been murdered around the world. Today, on International Day to End Impunity, we are taking a look back at what has…
Inter-American court ruling seen as a serious setback
For more than a decade, courts and legislatures throughout Latin America have found that civil remedies provide adequate redress in cases of libel and slander. Over this period, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights — an autonomous judicial institution, which is part of the human rights protection system of the Organization of American States (OAS)…
Brazil should support the International Day to End Impunity
New York, November 18, 2013–Brazil should make a strong statement committing to reverse the country’s long history of impunity in journalist murders on November 23, the International Day to End Impunity, the Committee to Protect Journalists stated in a letter to Dilma Vana Rousseff, president of the Federal Republic of Brazil.
Censorship in Alabama’s Shelby County
Before his staffers, under government duress, took power drills and angle grinders to destroy company Macbooks in the newspaper’s basement, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger made sure to send Edward Snowden’s leaked documents to New York newsrooms for safekeeping.
Honoring courage and defying repression
CPJ’s 2013 International Press Freedom Awards New York, November 13, 2013 — Four outstanding journalists who have endured and defied media repression in Ecuador, Egypt, Turkey, and Vietnam will be honored with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2013 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous journalism. All have faced recrimination for their work,…
Training can help journalists survive captivity
Two murdered journalists for the Africa service of Radio France Internationale, Ghislaine Dupont, 51, and Claude Verlon, 58, might have had a chance. They were abducted on November 2 in Kidal in northern Mali, but the vehicle their captors were driving suddenly broke down, according to news reports.
Honoring courage and defying repression
CPJ’s 2013 International Press Freedom AwardsNew York, November 6, 2013 — Four outstanding journalists who have endured and defied media repression in Ecuador, Egypt, Turkey, and Vietnam will be honored with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2013 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous journalism. All have faced recrimination for their work, including…